Remaking Academic Garments

Catherine Manathunga; Agnes Bosanquet

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-75859-2_17

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Remaking Academic Garments

Catherine Manathunga and Agnes Bosanquet

Reimagining the Academy: ShiFting Towards Kindness, Connection, and an Ethics of Care, pp.305-325

Palgrave Macmillan

2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75859-2_17

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Academic garments have, for centuries, privileged white, male, able, cisgender, middle class bodies. The mortar board, floppy PhD hat and cape, the suit and tie, the tweed jacket with elbow patches were all designed with the white male body in mind. The effect of recent neoliberal trends has only reinforced this. In this book chapter, two feminist scholars reflect upon the ways in which they have remade academia into a comfortable garment. Building upon the work of Kelly (A lecturer’s new clothes: an academic life, in textiles. In A. Black and S. Garvis (Eds.), Lived experiences of women in academia: Metaphors, manifesto and memoir (pp. 23–31). Routledge, 2018), they offer a collective autoethnography of the ways they wear academic life and engage in collective activism. They argue that remaking an academic life creates the conditions for radical hope (Lear, Radical hope: Ethics in the face of cultural devastation. Harvard University Press, 2006) in the academy for women and members of intersectional groups.

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Title: Remaking Academic Garments
Authors: Catherine Manathunga (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre - Legacy
Agnes Bosanquet (Author)
Contributors: Alison L Black (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast
Rachael Dwyer (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre - Legacy
Publication details: Reimagining the Academy: ShiFting Towards Kindness, Connection, and an Ethics of Care, pp.305-325
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date published: 2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75859-2_17; 10.1007/978-3-030-75859-2
Organisation Unit: Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99591808402621
Output Type: Book chapter

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